Wondering if there are any sonographers on here who might be able to help me out or people who have had similar stories.
Basically, I’m supposed to be 7 weeks pregnant and had a scan at the EPU yesterday because of some brown spotting. All seemed fine with the bleeding. The sonographer couldn’t find a uterine cause for it, there was no bleeding around the pregnancy sac, my ovaries or anywhere else.
This was the only good news.
She then described what she could see. She said there was a pregnancy sac present with a yolk sac inside and ‘maybe the beginnings of an embryo’. She then mentioned that the pregnancy sac only measured 5mm.
The next piece of info I got was that I did not ovulate from the side I thought I did which blew my ovulation date out of the water (as I went by a sharp pain in my right-hand side, when apparently I ovulated from my left as that’s where the corpeus luteum is)
Based on this and the last time we had sex, I told her that I could be as early as 6 weeks and she seemed to suggest that these measurements were consistent with that date. She prescribed me some progesterone pessaries and told me to come back for another scan in two weeks.
When I got home I searched for 5mm pregnancy sac and was able to ascertain in about three clicks on Google that this was not an ok measurement for 6 weeks.
The only caveat to this is that I have a tilted uterus and know that this makes it harder to take accurate measurements even with a transvaginal scan. My son was measuring as a week behind at a seven week scan (though we saw him and his heartbeat) but had ‘caught up’ by his 12 week scan.
In my mind there are two options here. The first and most logical:
The pregnancy stopped progressing at five weeks.
Or:
I am six weeks pregnant and the measurements were just wonky. This theory does get bonus points for making sense of my scant pregnancy symptoms (My nausea has been barely there but has felt worse over the last few days. Though on a bad note, my breasts were sore but aren’t really anymore since yesterday). It would also explain why I had an extremely faint positive test at what I thought was 14dpo but could actually have been 9dpo.
She asked me to go back in two weeks for another scan which again I agreed to but now it just seems like a waste of two weeks that I could have spent getting my cycle back and preparing to try again. At 35 I really can't afford to waste a month or more. We also have male factor fertility issues so it’s highly unlikely for us to get pregnant at the best of times. This one was another miracle in our eyes.
What should I do? I don’t know whether to bother with the pessaries. Will they delay the miscarriage or will it happen regardless? I’m afraid they’re going to give me fake symptoms and I might be tricked into thinking it’s all ok. I just wanted a definitive answer but came out with a different problem altogether ☹
Why has she given me hope in an obviously hopeless situation? It just seems extremely cruel.